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Lot Essay
Adrian Stephen was the brother of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. Following the death of their father, Sir Leslie Stephen, in 1905, the siblings moved into 46 Gordon Square. This was to be the nucleus of what would become known as the Bloomsbury Group. Thursday evenings became a regular fixture for friends that included Clive Bell (who proposed to Vanessa the following year), George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey and EM Forster. It was Lytton Strachey who encouraged his old friend Leonard Woolf to court Virginia Stephen.
Angelica Bell was the daughter of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Although her parentage was well known in Bloomsbury circles, she did not learn that Clive Bell was not her father until she was nineteen. She spent her childhood at Charleston and in the South of France. She married David Garett, her father's former lover in 1942.
Angelica Bell was the daughter of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Although her parentage was well known in Bloomsbury circles, she did not learn that Clive Bell was not her father until she was nineteen. She spent her childhood at Charleston and in the South of France. She married David Garett, her father's former lover in 1942.